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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago
    % free -h
                   total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:           125Gi        15Gi        90Gi       523Mi        22Gi       110Gi
    Swap:           63Gi          0B        63Gi
    

    I'll use it eventually. Just gotta let the disk cache warm up.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

    That's how I got a free netbook. The netbook had 32GB flash with windows and office occupying 27+GB. Then windows wanted to do an update - with an 8+GB file. Spot the problem. And windows can get quite annoying with updates. As the netbook could not be expanded, and attempts to redirect the update to a USB stick did not work, a newer netbook was bought, and I got the old one. Linux plus libreoffice plus a bunch of extras happily sat in 4GB...

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

    you just need more things to run on it

    Screenshot_20241102-175331_Firefox

    [–] independantiste 252 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    Meanwhile the electron app you're trying to run

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

    The other day my laptop was sluggish as hell, checked top and turns out Discord and Orca Slicer were maxing out my cores

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    [–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

    the rest is electron

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    i mean, some games (cough cough factorio cough cough) manage to use up about 25GB of ram on my system, so it's nice to have a buffer. now, my 64GB may be considered a bit overkill but i call it future proofing

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I upgraded to 64 GB a few months ago, also thinking it would be future proof for a while. However, I entirely exhuasted it two weeks ago 😑

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

    some c++ and android coding on a few projects, plus firefox, plus the other minor stuff like translator, goldendict, ...

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

    K8s clusters, probably.

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    [–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (12 children)

    Gives a lot of Space for running Virtual machines.

    Also browsers can chew that up fast if you have a lot of tabs, Firefox has managed to do it a few times. At least until I started limiting its RAM to 8GB (best decision ever)

    Limit Firefox to 8GB of RAM .desktop file

    [Desktop Entry]
    Version=1.0
    Name=Firefox RAM limit 8GB
    GenericName=Firefox Ram limit 8GB
    Comment=Limit RAM for Firefox to 8GB;
    Exec=systemd-run --user --scope -p MemoryLimit=8G firefox
    Icon=firefox
    Type=Application
    Terminal=false
    Categories=Utility;Development;
    StartupWMClass=Firefox
    

    (To use it with other apps like Chrome or Electron apps just replace the command at the end, and startup class with the ones from the program you'd like to run. Icon and Name changes are optional but might be desirable so you remember what app it is for).

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    [–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

    ...name checks out

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    i think you might be able to run kde plasma with that!

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Fun fact, KDE is very lightweight. More so than a lot of folks give it credit for

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

    It’s amazing. Until there is a conflict with mismatched qt libraries.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

    Better add 32 GB Zram to be safe tho

    I use Kde plasma so I'm allowed to make fun of it

    [–] [email protected] 70 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    I've seen builds of the Linux kernel that comfortably fits in my on-die CPU caches.

    So it would just be a picture of an empty sofa.

    [–] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    There are mid range CPUs with 128MB of L3 cache now. A Linux distro like Tiny Core could fit entirely in cache.

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Tiny Core Linux is a minimal Linux kernel based operating system focusing on providing a base system using BusyBox and FLTK. It was developed by Robert Shingledecker, who was previously the lead developer of Damn Small Linux.

    Ah, that explains a lot! Didn't know about TCL.

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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    One of the cushions is your browser, the other half some IDE you use to write an one-liner.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Am i the only one who still has no problems with 8GB? Not that I wouldn't be happy with more but i can't remember the last time I've even thought about ram usage

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    If your job requires you to use chrome and vscode, 8GB is usually not enough :/

    [–] s4if 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I use potato PC with just 8GB of ram to work. I regularly use VSCode and docker. It still run smoothly when I use it properly. lol.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

    Guessing you don't run a couple docker containers to support local development;-)

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    At my last WFH job my daily setup was firefox, sublime text, slack (electron app), github desktop (also electron), and 3 terminals, one running a local dev server. It all ran fine.

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    [–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (11 children)

    Can't relate, just upgraded my laptop from 32GB to 64GB since VScode would keep closing due to OOM. What? Oh, no, it's not vscode's fault.....I keep like 5 Firefox windows with 30+ tabs open, like a fucking maniac..... Close them? What do you mean "close" them?

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Only 30 tabs, you need to bump those numbers up!

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

    Setup a VM bot net, RAM problem solved.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    My system gets maxed out of the 16gb regularly.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    Yeah. Firefox will gladly make itself comfy in my 32Gb... It's annoying because just because 80% of RAM is "used" doesn't mean it is really.

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    [–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Plenty of room left over for my Chrome tabs

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

    Four of them.

    [–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    Wondering how my 64gb will outlast every other part upgrade my gaming Linux box will get over the years

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    [–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Java would like to hog the couch

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

    Minimum requirements to run hello world in Java

    [–] winterayars 24 points 3 days ago

    Once you fire up a webpage it'll just dump garbage all over the couch.

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Microsoft Flight Simulator: A whole airplane on the couch

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

    This comment section is a goldmine

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

    True story. I remember back in the bad old days when Firefox had notorious memory leaks, so when building my latest PC, I put in 32GB. The monitor app on my desktop has only ever topped out at showing 30% of memory allocated.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

    Try realizing ten thousand mesh instances in Blender and watch that sucker eat the rest of your RAM like it's got a pebble in its shoe.

    I did that on my work PC with 128 GB memory (originally built for esports shit) and it still wasn't enough.

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

    Ram disks!!

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    I use a shit load of RAM on Linux. You guys clearly have amateur numbers when it comes to how many applications you have open at once.

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    [–] weker01 12 points 3 days ago

    Like any cat, Linux is actually liquid and can flow over the whole sofa if it so chooses.

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